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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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